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Beachcomber.
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Anil Dash
about 8 hours ago
Imagine a browser where you type in âTaylor Swiftâ and it doesnât even admit that her website exists. I write about Atlas, ChatGPTâs new anti-web browser that should come with a warning label.
www.anildash.com/2025/10/22/a...
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ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
https://www.anildash.com//2025/10/22/atlas-anti-web-browser/
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Zoe Gardner
21 days ago
People recognised as refugees fleeing persecution & granted the right to live in the UK to be denied the right to be joined safely by their spouse & children. This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt.
#r4today
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Starmer to end asylum âgolden ticketâ of resettlement and family reunion rights
People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call âstraight from populist playbookâ
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/oct/01/starmer-to-end-asylum-golden-ticket-of-resettlement-and-family-reunion-rights
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Caroline Lucas
21 days ago
Tory partyâs long journey away from science, reason, responsibility, common sense and truth is complete
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Kemi Badenoch vows to repeal Climate Change Act
Tory leader says she would replace it with âcheap energyâ strategy, ending decades-long consensus on climate
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/02/kemi-badenoch-vows-to-repeal-climate-change-act
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Those breakfast TV news tickers in full...
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Next up, Department of Energy to be renamed the Department of Warm.
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I switch on the TV and on the BBC are Roy Orbison and Bruce Springsteen on stage together... and that's definitely Elvis Costello in the background... and is that Tom Waits on keys? What a blast. Springsteen is grinning from ear to ear.
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Happy "Daniel Hannan is Hilariously Wrong About Everything" Day to those who celebrate.
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What Britain looks like after Brexit
Youâre reading Reaction.
https://www.reaction.life/p/britain-looks-like-brexit
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Warner Bros. Discovery to split into two companies: Warner; and Bros. Discovery, a streaming service dedicated entirely to late '80s boy bands.
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Watching the Musk/Trump feud feels like being one of these onlookers in Mothra vs Godzilla.
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Depressing to see Yvette Cooper is as punitive a Home Secretary as any of her Tory forebears.
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Migrants already in UK face longer wait for permanent settlement
People will typically have to live in the UK for 10 years before applying for the right to stay indefinitely.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c249ndrrd7vo
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May the Fourth be with you...
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Speedysnail · These Are the Names Youâre Looking For
Give your baby a Forceful name!
https://speedysnail.com/2025/05/these-are-the-names-youre-looking-for/
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jamelle
6 months ago
the reason why these people believe in âthe woke mind virusâ and think of others as âNPCsâ is because they have literally fried their brains in private group chats with people who share the same half dozen opinions
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Octopuses are incredibly genetically complex and likely more intelligent than an AI will ever be, but none of these Silicon Valley bros is pushing a human-free future ruled by cephalopods.
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Arthur Snell
6 months ago
Why did the Ukraine peace plan fail?
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The Longest Day
Why can't Trump end the war in Ukraine?
https://open.substack.com/pub/arthursnell/p/the-longest-day?r=8jnwf&utm_medium=ios
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Jason Koebler
7 months ago
The most powerful people and companies in the world have successfully orchestrated one of the most damaging and stupid self owns imaginable:
www.404media.co/big-tech-bac...
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Big Tech Backed Trump for Acceleration. They Got a Decel President Instead
Effective accelerationists didnât just accidentally shoot themselves in the foot. They methodically blew off each of their toes with a .50 caliber sniper rifle.
https://www.404media.co/big-tech-backed-trump-for-acceleration-they-got-a-decel-president-instead/
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Stephen Collins
7 months ago
We need to talk about American BBQ radicalisation
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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The fight back against American BBQ culture starts here â the Stephen Collins cartoon
Never âslawâ, never âsmokerâ, never huge beards âŠ
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/picture/2025/apr/04/the-fight-back-against-american-bbq-culture-starts-here-the-stephen-collins-cartoon
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tante
7 months ago
OpenAI's move to allow generating "Ghibly stlye" images isn't just a cute PR stunt. It is an expression of dominance and the will to reject and refuse democratic values. It is a vulgar display of power.
https://tante.cc/2025/03/28/vulgar-display-of-power/
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Vulgar Display of Power
Hayao Miyasaki is the co-founder of Studio Ghibli, a Japanese animation studio known worldwide for their stunning, emotional, beautiful stories and movies. At the core of Studio Ghibliâs work is a deep engagement with questions of humanity. About what it means to be a human, about how to care for one another and the world [âŠ]
https://tante.cc/2025/03/28/vulgar-display-of-power/
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John Skiles Skinner
7 months ago
I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired. It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. đ§”
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ceej
7 months ago
chatgpt has fully broken-through to every facet of the corporate environment. I'm spending a not-insignificant amount of my time every week now explaining to people that just because chatgpt told you that something was possible doesn't mean that it a) is or b) even exists
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Baudrillard called it in 1990.
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Taylor Lorenz
8 months ago
"Whatâs happening in the US is some sort of weird hybrid of the kind of power grabs weâve seen in the tech industry, combined with a more traditional collapse of democratic institutions. The destruction is far more systematic and dangerous than many realize.â
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Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not)
While political reporters are still doing their view-from-nowhere âDemocrats say this, Republicans say thatâ dance, tech and legal journalists have been watching an unfortunately recognâŠ
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/why-techdirt-is-now-a-democracy-blog-whether-we-like-it-or-not/
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Timothy Snyder
8 months ago
The attempted mugging of a visiting president was about the world war that Musk, Trump, and Vance have chosen. If we attend to what Vance and Trump said yesterday, we can work our way to the unreason of American policy, and to the chaos that will follow.
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The War Trump Chooses
That wasn't Trump against Zelens'kyi. It was Americans against reason
https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-war-trump-chooses
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Rachel Coxcoon
8 months ago
looking at
@thecccuk.bsky.social
tweet from this morning, I'm struck by how much the estimates of the costs of
#NetZero
have reduced by. I have gotten used to quoting around 1% of GDP to get to Net Zero by 2050 (from the 6th budget) so this is huge. Also, let's compare to Brexit...
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Ed Conway
8 months ago
đ§”Three years ago, when Russia invaded Ukraine, EU, UK and other nations vowed to wage economic war, via the toughest sanctions in history. So... how's that going? We've spent months documenting what ACTUALLY happened. Here's a thread of our investigations on the REAL story on sanctions... đ
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Gabrielius Landsbergis
8 months ago
Once again I am leaving the Munich Security Conference in a low mood. Amongst all the noise, the US signalled their plans for Europe, so things are becoming clearer. But things are clearly not good. This is what we now know, and what we have to do about it:đ§”1/17
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)
9 months ago
"We abandon the body and what it learns by being in the world - the physical world - at our peril." I wrote about the basements of the
@britishlibrary.bsky.social
, what I learned there about historical method - and why ChatGPT can only ever be garbage. đ
#histsci
buttondown.com/surekhadavie...
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Basement adventures showed me why ChatGPT can only ever be garbage.
In The British Library. Photo by Surekha Davies. Hallo readers, First, a news flash: Join me for a virtual book launch for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY...
https://buttondown.com/surekhadavies/archive/basement-adventures-showed-me-why-chatgpt-can/
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When it comes to tackling climate change, the response to questions of "what's in it for us" is "a world with us in it".
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Speedysnail · Natural Disasters
When the LA fires ramped up in the second week of January, I spent a couple of days messaging with [âŠ]
http://speedysnail.com/2025/01/natural-disasters/
9 months ago
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Matthew Facciani
10 months ago
New study finds that frequent use of AI tools encourages offloading cognitive tasks and reduces critical thinking. Higher AI usage correlated with lower critical thinking skills, especially in younger users.
www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/15...
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AI Tools in Society: Impacts on Cognitive Offloading and the Future of Critical Thinking
The proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) tools has transformed numerous aspects of daily life, yet its impact on critical thinking remains underexplored. This study investigates the relations...
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/15/1/6
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The Anti-War-on-Christmas campaigners have it all wrong. "Winterval" is the perfect word for these in-between days.
10 months ago
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Tom Freeman
10 months ago
Spider-Man Spider-Man Riding through the glen Spider-Man Spider-Man No letâs try again Robin Hood Robin Hood Does whatever A robin could
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Altmetric
10 months ago
THREAD This Is The Story Of The The Pernicious Rise of AI-Generated Papers and their Online Impact An Incomplete History Told In The Voice of Documentarian Adam Curtis 1/31
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Speedysnail · Skibidi Wap-Pa-Pa
Blazing a silvery trail since 1999. Personal website and weblog with photos, limericks, cartoons, academic papers and more.
http://speedysnail.com/2024/12/skibidi-wap-pa-pa/
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Just turned on the TV and up popped The One Show, and there's Andrew Ridgley on the couch talking about "Last Christmas"âare they TRYING to Whamageddon 3 million viewers in one hit? (I escaped in the nick of time...)
11 months ago
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Shayan Sardarizadeh
11 months ago
THREAD: How to check if the screenshot of a social media post is real or fake? Fake screnshots of online posts regularly mislead people. So, here's a simple guide on how you can quickly check if a screenshot of a post attributed to an account is genuine or fake before falling for or sharing it.
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Guardian and Observer NUJ
11 months ago
Today Guardian and Observer journalists are on strike over plans to sell the Observer to a loss-making digital start up and put its journalism behind a paywall. đ§” How can you support us? SHARE our posts WRITE to
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Moose Allain
11 months ago
Itâs an annual tradition, a free to download and print for yourself Advent calendar. This year itâs an Aardvent calendar.
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Rowenna. 2 ânâs. Ro-WEN-na.
11 months ago
Data is never âcollectedâ, it is only *generated*. This isnât merely a pedantic semantic gripe; by misrepresenting âdataâ as something that exists in nature & has only to be scooped up, evasion of accountability for data harms has already begun Data doesnât exist until someone constructs it
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For some reason, contemplating the use of AI in higher education this evening brought to mind this scene from one of my favourite Coen Brothers films...
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Barton Fink (1991) I'll show you the life of the mind!
YouTube video by Movie Clip Microcosm - what movies mean to us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xujJSxvYXfo
11 months ago
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Now that I have dozens of new followers from
#mefi
thanks to a starter pack collated by
@kattullus.bsky.social
I'd better actually post here, rather than using Bsky just for reading. Here, have a miscellaneous links roundup...
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Speedysnail · The Long and the Short of It
Blazing a silvery trail since 1999. Personal website and weblog with photos, limericks, cartoons, academic papers and more.
http://speedysnail.com/2024/11/the-long-and-the-short-of-it/
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Carole Cadwalladr
11 months ago
NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next. I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great
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How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr
In the wake of Trumpâs unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/17/how-to-survive-the-broligarchy-20-lessons-for-the-post-truth-world-donald-trump
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Musa Okwonga
11 months ago
Analysis of why Trump won which ignores the fact that the far right have been pumping algorithm-fuelled hate through Twitter, Facebook, TikTok and YouTube for years is deeply unserious. We have QAnon politicians in office, for goodnessâ sake. Many peopleâs connection with reality has been shattered.
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Eleanor Morton
11 months ago
Apropos of nothing, here are some of the actual jobs Hitler's top guys had before he put them in charge of Germany: Von Ribbentrop - wine salesman. Added the 'von' to his name cos he wanted to be an aristocrat Goebbels: Bank clerk Himmler: Chicken farmer/ manure processing plant worker 1/2
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michael veale
11 months ago
In response to OpenAIâs recent âA Studentâs Guide to Writing with ChatGPTâ, Arthur Perret (maĂźtre de conferĂ©nces, Jean Moulin Lyon 3) writes a line-by-line rebuttal â A Studentâs Guide to Not Writing with ChatGPT
www.arthurperret.fr/blog/2024-11...
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A Studentâs Guide to Not Writing with ChatGPT
Site web dâArthur Perret, enseignant-chercheur en SIC.
https://www.arthurperret.fr/blog/2024-11-14-student-guide-not-writing-with-chatgpt.html
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Dave Bagpuss Forsey đș
12 months ago
This reminds me of when, during covid, when people would say they'd have Zoom calls with no trousers on. Except this is so much better.
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MAX SIEDENTOPF
Max Siedentopf (1991) is a Namibian-German artist, photographer, director and publisher. Max grew up in Windhoek, Namibia and continued to work in Berlin, Los Angeles and Amsterdam. He is currently ba...
https://maxsiedentopf.com/passport-photos/
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Jen Golbeck
12 months ago
đ§”Next week, you will see people using something called Benford's Law to try to prove election fraud. âïžThese people are wrongâïž I am a scientist who has published on Benford's Law. Let me tell you what it is and why what they are doing is mathematically incorrect. 1/
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This explains a lot. I asked an AI image generator to show me "a step-by-step tutorial on how to draw hands".
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